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  • nicko33
    nicko33 Posts: 1,125 Forumite
    GracieP wrote: »
    Well there is a time and a place.

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    Notification of death; exactly the time and place to spell things correctly.
    Just ask Gordon Brown.
  • nicko33
    nicko33 Posts: 1,125 Forumite
    neverdespairgirl wrote: »
    You're expecting English to be logical?
    Morer people would find it easier to learn if it were.
  • westv
    westv Posts: 6,512 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper
    dnt get the spell lark m8
    times is gud but txt way btr
    Thnx 4 all - wicked.
  • RabbitMad
    RabbitMad Posts: 2,069 Forumite
    nicko33 wrote: »
    What about the opposite, i.e. if there are more
    Are there 2 different words for more depending on the type of thing being referenced?
    If not, and we don't need a distinction for "more", then I see no need for a distinction for "less" (or there is an opening here to invent a new word).

    There are morer people
    There is more bread

    Quite - why do we need Less and Fewer, can't we just have more and not more? and plus not more if there is a lot less?

    why don't we do away with some of the words too and just use symbols instead. eg +!more
  • zygurat789
    zygurat789 Posts: 4,263 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    RabbitMad wrote: »
    Quite - why do we need Less and Fewer, can't we just have more and not more? and plus not more if there is a lot less?

    why don't we do away with some of the words too and just use symbols instead. eg +!more

    I think there's a case for more words, just look at how many meanings there are for the word "set".
    The only thing that is constant is change.
  • StevieJ
    StevieJ Posts: 20,174 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    To be honest, I couldn't care fewer ;)
    'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher
  • spirit
    spirit Posts: 2,886 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker Mortgage-free Glee!
    We've got more words than the French :T
    Mortgage free as of 10/02/2015. Every brick and blade of grass belongs to meeeee. :j
  • zygurat789
    zygurat789 Posts: 4,263 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    spirit wrote: »
    We've got more words than the French :T
    In 1066 the Normans played an away fixture in Hastings, they won and stayed and imposed their ways and language (French) on the indigenous Saxons who refused to give up their existing language. Hence the two got merged giving us the rich, full language we have today.
    Isn't TV marvellous
    The only thing that is constant is change.
  • GracieP
    GracieP Posts: 1,263 Forumite
    RabbitMad wrote: »
    why don't we do away with some of the words too and just use symbols instead. eg +!more

    That would be doubleplusgood. It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
  • nicko33
    nicko33 Posts: 1,125 Forumite
    StevieJ wrote: »
    To be honest, I couldn't care fewer ;)
    At least, much more of this, moreover, and many lesser men might mostly agree. Phew!
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